I like the "associated peoples" idea - it's more widely applicable than
"culture". I could change my proposal to this, so that it could be used for
all these cases?

If 'dominant culture' needs indicating, I think it would make sense to do
this as a 'qualifier' on the relevant culture (there may not be an
appropriate property for this yet). Similarly, you could specify
'start-date' and 'end-date' qualifiers to indicate when each people was
associated with the site/object/concept.

Lawrence

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 at 13:34 Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Culture" seems a good idea. I was considering whether "associated
> peoples" might be better than "inhabited by" - with a constraint to
> make it clear that values had to be an instance of a nationality,
> ethnic group, population, etc., rather than individuals. It seems to
> overlap a bit with "culture".
>
> This would let us have "countries" like:
>
> * Aztec empire : associated peoples : Mexica (and others)
> * France : associated peoples : French people
>
> but also could be used for both historic & contemporary cultural
> concepts/objects/sites/etc:
>
> * Armenian dance : associated peoples : Armenian people
> * Sutton Hoo : associated peoples : Anglo-Saxons
> * Highland dress : associated peoples : Scottish people
>
> Unlike the culture idea, it wouldn't be implicitly "dominant culture".
> This may or many not be a good thing :-)
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 14 January 2016 at 10:48, Lawrence Troup <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > This is quite similar to my proposal for a "culture" property [1], which
> > would be used e.g. for Tenochtitlan [Q13695] has "culture" Mexica
> [Q3307681]
> > (and probably also has culture Aztec [Q12542]). You could potentially
> extend
> > the usage of this attribute so that you could have the "culture" of the
> > Aztec Empire set to Mexica.
> >
> > I agree with Andrew that "inhabited by" is a property that needs adding -
> > though in this case, it wouldn't  indicate that Mexica were rulers of the
> > Aztec Empire, just that they lived in it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lawrence
> >
> > [1] "culture" property proposal:
> >
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Creative_work#culture
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 at 09:49 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi James,
> >>
> >> Interesting question, this one. There's no easy way to link, eg,
> >> "France" and "French people".
> >>
> >> We have a property for "category of associated people" (P1792), so:
> >> France [P1792] Category:French people; & in turn that has a
> >> "category's main topic": Category:French people [P301] French people -
> >> but this is very convoluted!
> >>
> >> I wonder if this might be something looking for a suitable new
> >> property - "inhabited by"? "associated nationality"?. Alternatively,
> >> we could use P17, "country", on the item for the population group -
> >> this is a bit generic, but it would work.
> >>
> >> Andrew.
> >>
> >> On 13 January 2016 at 18:58,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > I want to add relationships between Mexica :Q3307681and Aztec Empire
> >> > :Q794210 [1] where Mexicas were an indigenous people of the Valley of
> >> > Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec empire.  I haven't
> found
> >> > any properties that seem appropriate to me so I'd like to get your
> >> > insight before adding any.  What properties would be most appropriate?
> >> >
> >> > [1] ConceptMap link: http://bit.ly/1RMVgsD
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > James Weaver
> >> >
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